Grassroots Central Updates

Always fun to see him on there, even though I watch Liberty Report daily. Seems to have some warmth for Alex. Was asked what he would do if he was Trump right now. Veto all spending, and end the Fed. Said if you wanna find out who the deep state is, auditing the Fed will tell you everything.

I'm still amazed how the first thing I think about when I see Dr. Paul is consistency. Decades of it. What a priceless quality.

As a general rule, when Dick Cheney favors a foreign policy position it’s best to be on the opposite side if you value liberty over war and authoritarianism. The former vice president’s enthusiastic endorsement of not only Gina Haspel as CIA director but of the torture program she oversaw should tell us all we need to know about Haspel.

Saying that Haspel would make a great CIA director, Cheney dismissed concerns over the CIA’s torture program. Asked in a television interview last week about the program, Cheney said, “if it were my call, I’d do it again.”

Sadly, the majority of the US Senate agreed with Cheney that putting a torturer in charge

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo threatened Iran with annihilation in a speech yesterday at the neoconservative Heritage Foundation. His twelve demands of Iran read like the demands made of Serbia in 1914 -- they are designed not to reduce tensions but to lead to war. But is all the bombast in the Trump Administration on Iran just a sign of weakness? The claims in Pompeo's speech are demonstrably false. Why lie when the lies are so easy to refute?

Do we have actual elections in the US, or does the CIA and deep state do the deciding? The news that longtime CIA operative Stefan Halper infiltrated the Trump campaign at the behest of the FBI should be the biggest news in the country. To the extent that the media is covering it, they are furious that the CIA infiltrator was exposed in the media. Do we even care anymore that we are manipulated by the secret government?

Every bubble goes through different phases before it finally bursts. They all end in a euphoric crack-up boom. In less than a year, the U.S. government has been clocking in debt at an average of $52,000 per SECOND, which more than what the average American earns in an entire YEAR! Is the U.S. government bubble finally reaching the end?

President Trump's National Security Advisor John Bolton was bombastic on the Sunday talk shows, demanding essentially a North Korea surrender rather than setting the stage for mutually beneficial talks. As we predicted just a week ago, Bolton is making his move to blow up Trump's North Korea breakthrough.

As President Trump's daughter and son-in-law celebrated the opening of a new US embassy in Jerusalem, some 60 protesting Palestinians were shot and killed in Gaza by Israeli snipers. The US embassy move was sold as a path to peace, but it looks like it is producing a mountain of blowback. Another foreign policy failure?

The drama in Washington continues around President Trump's choice of CIA official Gina Haspel to be its new director. Haspel's involvement in the CIA torture program and in covering up the evidence has led some Senators feeling unsure. Is Haspel qualified to head the CIA? That depends on what you think of the CIA and its mission...

Back in the 2008 presidential race, I explained to then-candidate Rudy Giuliani the concept of “blowback.” Years of US meddling and military occupation of parts of the Middle East motivated a group of terrorists to carry out attacks against the United States on 9/11. They didn’t do it because we are so rich and so free, as the neocons would have us believe. They came over here because we had been killing Muslims “over there” for decades.

How do we know this? Well, they told us. Osama bin Laden made it clear why al-Qaeda sought to attack the US. They didn’t like the US taking sides in the Israel-Palestine conflict

A free society needs very few laws, such as don’t use aggressive force against another person or their property; and don’t defraud someone or break a contract. Once government ventures out of these basic laws, tyranny starts to snowball. Over a couple hundred years, the snowball turns into an avalanche. Constant government aggression is met with constant blowback. Society unravels, and must begin again.

Former Congressman Ron Paul joins Larry with his take on Donald Trump, the Russia probe, and warns of a 'secret government' operating in the U.S. Then former Defense Secretary William Cohen on the potential pitfalls in negotiating with North Korea.

Angered by President Trump's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, German Chancellor Merkel has urged Europe to get its act together and stop relying on the US for defense protection. If Europe follows through, it can only be good news for the US...

This is not another gloating attack against the naysayers of V day. But if yesterday taught us anything it is this: the American people are STARVING for an alternative.
They are mad as hell at the government and the present situation. The average houshold carries $9,000 in credit cards. people are mortgaged to the hilt (a direct result of our debt based Monetray System - The Fed. We are taxed...

Ron Paul & Rand Paul: News & Discussion

As far out as it sounds, I don't think it is totally unrealistic. I'm no expert (thank god for that!), but from an optimistic viewpoint, I think one could argue that in some strange way we are closer to liberty than we really believe. Part of it is Trump...he is helping our cause I think, even if it's just to destroy the deep state and empty the establishment. He's basically removing barriers to...

https://youtu.be/weXPXFqA4BE
Always fun to see him on there, even though I watch Liberty Report daily. Seems to have some warmth for Alex. Was asked what he would do if he was Trump right now. Veto all spending, and end the Fed. Said if you wanna find out who the deep state is, auditing the Fed will tell you everything.
I'm still amazed how the first thing I think about when I see Dr. Paul...

General News & Politics

The U.S. House of Representatives will soon take up a bill easing banking rules adopted after the decade-old global financial crisis, House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Tuesday.
"We will be moving the Dodd-Frank bill," Ryan told reporters at his weekly news conference, without specifying a timeline. The bill will be voted on "soon," he said.
The Senate voted 67-32 in March to endorse a...

On April 25, ConocoPhillips won a ruling that said the US major was entitled to more than $2 billion from Venezuela’s insolvent state oil company, PDVSA, over the country’s expropriation of several oil projects more than a decade ago. The drawn-out international legal struggle began in 2007 when ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil refused to cede control of their major oil production ventures to...

Trump cancels Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/24/trump-says-singapore-summit-with-north-korea-leader-kim-is-cancelled-.html
President Donald Trump has canceled his historic summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next month.
The meeting, which would have marked the first face-to-face encounter between a sitting U.S....

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pence-says-u-s-to-provide-16-million-in-aid-to-venezuelan-refugees-1523666151
Smart man, humanitarian aid, bombs and wars have the same effect on a nation when donated by the imperialist US. Reject it all and you might just have the opportunity to fight another day.

The Defense Department is funding a project that officials say could revolutionize the way companies, federal agencies and the military itself verify that people are who they say they are and it could be available in most commercial smartphones within two years.
The technology, which will be embedded in smartphones’ hardware, will analyze a variety of identifiers that are unique to an...

How to parse this?
Government and cops have drilled it into everybody's heads: see something say something. Report everything. Do not take things into your own hands, call 911.
Anybody here reading this knows this is a disaster in the making - do not call cops, and a local politician points that out: that calling cops can get somebody killed.
Too many rules, too many cops, too many...

"Absolutely" a blue Muslim wave coming, says Michigan congressional candidate Rashida Tlaib
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rashida-tlaib-blue-muslim-wave-michigan-13-congresional-district/
Rashida Tlaib, who is running for the Congress in the 13th district in Michigan, said Wednesday she "absolutely" sees a "blue Muslim wave" in the 2018 midterm elections. Tlaib is one of more than 90...

Media cratoons have started to cross the line again as White House gift shop offers sale prices on historic Coins to memorialize Peace Talks with North Korea's 'Supreme Leader'.
Not too surprising considering how parts of media had mocked recent Peace Process ceremony in Jerusalem using very controversial depictions.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/998839663807942656

Bit of surprising news while Trump and allies were busy celeberating Israel embassy move/teaching Palestinian protesters a lesson. Timing of this move does not indicate that NK's leader was trolling Trump earlier / now is trying to put extra pressure on Trump who had already announced the summit and started using it as a political talking point.
But it is still surprising that such a...

Still pretty stunning, but that's down from just over 50% in 2013
Four in 10 can’t cover an emergency expense of $400, Fed survey finds
Published: May 22, 2018 12:36 p.m. ET
Small emergency expenses still challenge many Americans after nearly a decade of economic recovery, a new survey released by the Federal Reserve on Tuesday found.
The Fed’s new survey of household economics and...

According to some reports, the unemployment rate is now so low that employers can not find workers. This is anecdotal, and there may be more to the story, such as how hard an employer has really tried to find people, but let's assume for a moment that it is true.
The next step is to look at the welfare and food stamp roles. How many people are able to work in some capacity, yet are not working...

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Living Free and Healthy

Egg a day tied to lower risk of heart disease
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-heart-eggs/egg-a-day-tied-to-lower-risk-of-heart-disease-idUSKCN1IM2G9
(Reuters Health) - People who eat an egg just about every day may have a lower risk of heart attack and stroke than individuals who don’t eat eggs at all, a large Chinese study suggests.
Researchers examined survey data on egg...

This fall the Indians on a remote reservation asked their new Chief Oyarde if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.
Since he was a chief in a modern society, he’d never learned the old tribal secrets. He couldn’t look at the sky to predict what the winter was going to be like.
"It's going to be a very cold winter."
So just to be on the safe side, Oyarde told his tribe that the...

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Lack of infections during childhood is a common trend in obsessively clean environments that the babies grow up in today. According to Prof Mel Greaves from the Institute of Cancer Research in London, winner of the Royal Society’s prestigious Royal Medal, childhood leukemias are caused not just due to aberrant genetics or due to exposure to dangerous radiation but also due to lack of common...

How about privatizing the schools and letting the parents decide which schools are safest? As far as I can tell I'm the only one here with this idea, which is a little disconcerting since this is supposed to be a libertarian forum.
It's bad enough that kids are getting shot at schools, but the fact that the government forces your kids to attend makes it even worse.